KING CLAUDIUS

　　O Gertrude, come away!

　　The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch,

　　But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed

　　We must, with all our majesty and skill,

　　Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern!

　　Re-enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN

　　Friends both, go join you with some further aid:

　　Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,

　　And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him:

　　Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body

　　Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this.

　　Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN

　　Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends;

　　And let them know, both what we mean to do,

　　And what's untimely done. O, come away!

　　My soul is full of discord and dismay.

　　Exeunt

　　SCENE II. Another room in the castle.

　　Enter HAMLET

　　HAMLET

　　Safely stowed.

　　ROSENCRANTZ: GUILDENSTERN:

　　[Within] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!

　　HAMLET

　　What noise? who calls on Hamlet?

　　O, here they come.

　　Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN

　　ROSENCRANTZ

　　What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?

　　HAMLET

　　Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.

　　ROSENCRANTZ

　　Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence

　　And bear it to the chapel.

　　HAMLET

　　Do not believe it.

　　ROSENCRANTZ

　　Believe what?

　　HAMLET

　　That I can keep your counsel and not mine own.

　　Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what

　　replication should be made by the son of a king?

　　ROSENCRANTZ

　　Take you me for a sponge, my lord?

　　HAMLET

　　Ay, sir, that soaks up the king's countenance, his